Re: 2.6.1 slower than 2.4, smp/scsi/sw-raid/reiserfs

Andrew Morton
2004-02-02T23:48:40Z

Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
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> Andrew, any other ideas?

There seems to be a lot more writeout happening.

You could try setting /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio to 60 and
/proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio to 40.